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Record note-books at 19 cents per quire. Chordenal's First French Course, 48 cents. A 16 K gold pen in a fountain holder for $1.25. Members who bought Erckman Chatrian's Histoire d'un Payson in 4 vols., may return the last three vols. for which $1.95 will be refunded. The first volume will be furnished hereafter at 70 cents. The furniture rooms will be closed at the end of this week...
Record note-books at 19 cents per quire. Chordenal's First French Course, 48 cents. A 16 K gold pen in a fountain holder for $1.25. Members who bought Erckman Chatrian's Histoire d'un Payson in 4 vols., may return the last three vols. for which $1.95 will be refunded. The first volume will be furnished hereafter at 70 cents. The furniture rooms will be closed at the end of this week...
...paper set for the Harvard admission examinations last June. The 500 or more papers which were written contained every variety of mistake, but there were two sentences which were the special stumbling-ground. "La pauvre femme, sentent la raison de son mari, no bougea et se contenta d'ecarter un peu son rideau pour voir sortir, etc., gave rise to "fearing for the reason of her husband," and "appreciating the reason of his marriage," and the words "ecarter un peu son rideau" gave large opportunities to the guessers. Among the many mistranslations of these five words were the following...
Although the remark that our University is poor, is not, strictly speaking, a startling one, yet of late the fact has been forced upon the attention of the writer in a new and sometimes vigorous way, namely, by the seating, or rather un-seating arrangements in many of the larger recitation and lecture rooms. Now, as every student is well aware from long experience, recitation rooms with us are little nitches cut out of an ideal paradise. This being the case, especially with those in Massachusetts and Harvard Hall, the question arises, why should the seats be like smaller nitches...
...tendencies the CRIMSON reprobated were the adoption of ways not simply un-American, but highly ridiculous as well. The assumption of an "haw-haw" accent even when the impostor was English, was keenly satirized by Lord Lytton in his novel "Night and Morning...